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THE anuran adrenal gland consists of tissue strands in which the interrenal and chromaffin cells are intermingled. In some species a third cell type (summer- or Stilling-cell) has been described which has an eccentrically placed nucleus and cytoplasmic granules which are eosinophilic and stain metachromatically with basic dyes like toluidine blue. In Rana temporaria chromotropic cells are also present but differ from the foregoing in histological appearance; moreover, the cytoplasmic granules are not eosinophilic.
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VAN KEMENADE, J., VAN DONGEN, W. Cyclic and Experimentally-induced Changes in the Histology of the Adrenal Gland in Rana temporaria. Nature 205, 195 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/205195a0
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